I am not sure whether stand-alone browsers on DirectFB exist., but
regarding HTML+CSS+JavaScript Enabled browsers, Mozilla Firefox and
Webkit seems to be suitable candidates, though the performance of these
two largely depends on how much RAM is available, till what extent
DirectFB is accelerated and How much the DirectFB port of GDK/GTK is
optimised. The two major work done on Firefox-GTK-DirectFB are listed below:
1. Firefox 1.5
http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/DFBMozilla
2. Firefox Mobile/3.0
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/DFBPorting
From what i remember about Normal Firefox_1.5/DirectFB(without
stripping or excluding any functionality), it used to take arnd 12 MB on
Startup, and then this used to increase anywhere from 24 to 36 MB
depending on Type and Size of WebPage loaded. WebKit seems to be lighter
than Firefox but there also 64MB is supposed to be the minimum
requirement for product acceptance. Lot of extra functionality or
components or UI Elements can easily be removed from Mozilla, which may
result in some performance and Memory(Flash/RAM) gain.
Regards,
Siddharth
Allen Black wrote:
Can anyone recommend an HTML/CSS/JavaScript browser that runs on top
of DirectFB (or DirectFB/GTK+) on an embedded platform? The browser
can be very basic as it will only be displaying simple locally
generated pages (i.e. - we can control the content of the pages to
satisfy any limitations in the browser). It should also be as
lightweight as possible as our embedded platform will have about 24
MByte of Flash and 48 MByte of SRAM to devote to this function. Our
MPU is a Coldfire v4E running at 200 MHz.
I'm already familiar with this page
(http://www.directfb.org/wiki/index.php/Projects:GTK_on_DirectFB) from
the DirectFB wiki. But it's almost 2 years old and I'm hoping there
have been some "developments" since then. Recently I've been trying to
get WebKit (on top of DirectFB/GTK+) to build and run on our platform.
But I'm not confident that this will be successful. And I'm hoping
that someone can recommend a lighter weight (and easier to build)
solution.
Thanks for any help, suggestions, or hints that you can give me!
Allen Black
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